John Wight
@johnwight1.bsky.social
Writer of books, articles, and howler at the moon.
Books:
Gaza - This Bleeding Land
The Reckoning Time
Metrosexuals - An Edinburgh Tale
This Boxing Game
Articles:
https://johnwight1.medium.com
Books:
Gaza - This Bleeding Land
The Reckoning Time
Metrosexuals - An Edinburgh Tale
This Boxing Game
Articles:
https://johnwight1.medium.com
'It is not vengeance the world seeks, but justice. And justice for the Palestinians can only begin when the injustice that has placed a wall around your own humanity ends.'
By me on #gaza
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By me on #gaza
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A letter to an Israeli soldier
Your murderous assault against 2.2 million men, women and children of Gaza you have been waging now for twenty long months. Launched in…
medium.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
'It is not vengeance the world seeks, but justice. And justice for the Palestinians can only begin when the injustice that has placed a wall around your own humanity ends.'
By me on #gaza
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By me on #gaza
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By me @consortiumnews.bsky.social
Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome consortiumnews.com/2025/04/10/m...
Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome consortiumnews.com/2025/04/10/m...
Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome
In its greed for power, domination, resources and wealth, the West, says John Wight, is headed for the same fate as Rome all those centuries ago.
By John Wight
Special to Consortium News
The ancien...
consortiumnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
By me @consortiumnews.bsky.social
Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome consortiumnews.com/2025/04/10/m...
Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome consortiumnews.com/2025/04/10/m...
My new novel is now available in both paperback and hardback.
March 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My new novel is now available in both paperback and hardback.
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x.com
x.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
January 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The absolute truth.
December 27, 2024 at 3:43 PM
The absolute truth.
'America is the richest country in the developed world with the poorest and most oppressed working class.'
Me on the significance of Luigi Mangione
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Luigi Mangione has them worried. Wonder why?
Unhappy the land that is in need of a hero — Bertolt Brecht
medium.com
December 26, 2024 at 2:43 PM
'America is the richest country in the developed world with the poorest and most oppressed working class.'
Me on the significance of Luigi Mangione
medium.com/@johnwight1/...
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If only all newspapers were presented like this!
December 26, 2024 at 5:49 AM
If only all newspapers were presented like this!
Reposted by John Wight
Reposted by John Wight
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
December 14, 2024 at 1:14 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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#NotMyReptiles They are running out of ways to milk us dry.
December 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM
#NotMyReptiles They are running out of ways to milk us dry.
'In each case the result was mayhem and carnage wrought by Year Zero fanatics intent on mass slaughter in the name of a perverted rendering of Islam.'
My take on Syria
consortiumnews.com/2024/12/06/o...
My take on Syria
consortiumnews.com/2024/12/06/o...
Offensive Forces in Syria are Like Khmer Rouge
John Wight says the common denominator behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia the 1970s and Salafi-jihadism in our time, is Western foreign policy.
By John Wight
Medium
Taking place in Syr...
consortiumnews.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:36 PM
'In each case the result was mayhem and carnage wrought by Year Zero fanatics intent on mass slaughter in the name of a perverted rendering of Islam.'
My take on Syria
consortiumnews.com/2024/12/06/o...
My take on Syria
consortiumnews.com/2024/12/06/o...
Imagine a world in which everything made sense.
December 5, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Imagine a world in which everything made sense.
An ongoing genocide in Gaza, but Gregg Wallace.
December 2, 2024 at 4:29 PM
An ongoing genocide in Gaza, but Gregg Wallace.
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The US has long since given up the right to be the world's moral arbiter, but Biden has certainly put the final nail in that coffin.
December 2, 2024 at 9:33 AM
The US has long since given up the right to be the world's moral arbiter, but Biden has certainly put the final nail in that coffin.
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Superb from Mr Corbyn.
November 29, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Superb from Mr Corbyn.
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Labour's latest attack on welfare is a disgraceful assault on the dignity of the sick and disabled.
If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.
If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.
November 26, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Labour's latest attack on welfare is a disgraceful assault on the dignity of the sick and disabled.
If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.
If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.